Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.
Gnat, vǫrr, vika, vǫst, hóp ok mið,
vatn, djúp ok kaf, vík, tjǫrn ok sík,
stormr, díki, hylr, straumr, lœkr ok bekkr,
áll, bruðr, kelda, iða, fors ok kíll.
Gnat, vǫrr, vika, vǫst, hóp ok mið, vatn, djúp ok kaf, vík, tjǫrn ok sík, stormr, díki, hylr, straumr, lœkr ok bekkr, áll, bruðr, kelda, iða, fors ok kíll.
Din, ship’s wake, sea-mile, fishing-ground, inlet and fishing-bank, water, deep one and depth, bay, tarn and watercourse, storm, ditch, pool, current, stream and brook, channel, spring, well, eddy, waterfall and creek.
Mss: R(43v), Tˣ(45r), C(12v), A(19r), B(9r), 744ˣ(72r-v) (SnE)
Readings: [1] vǫrr: vǫr all others; vika: ‘[…]’ B, ‘vika’ 744ˣ [2] vǫst: ‘vizt’ B; hóp: so all others, hof R; ok: om. Tˣ [3] ok: om. Tˣ [4] tjǫrn: ‘t[…]’ B, ‘tio᷎rn’ 744ˣ; ok: om. Tˣ, ‘[…]’ B, ‘ok’ 744ˣ; sík: ‘[…]ik’ B, ‘sik’ 744ˣ [5] stormr: ‘[…]r’ B, ‘. . . mr’ 744ˣ; díki: dík C [6] ok: om. Tˣ, ‘[…]’ B, ok 744ˣ; bekkr: ‘[…]eckr’ B, ‘beckr’ 744ˣ [8] iða: om. B; ok: om. Tˣ, C
Editions: Skj AI, 669, Skj BI, 666, Skald I, 330, NN §3138; SnE 1848-87, I, 574-5, II, 479, 562, 622, SnE 1931, 205, SnE 1998, I, 124.
Notes: [All]: Of the sea-heiti listed in this stanza, gnat n. ‘din’, vika f. ‘sea-mile’ (l. 1), stormr m. ‘storm’ m. (l. 5), iða f. ‘eddy’ and kíll m. ‘creek’ (l. 8) never occur in skaldic poetry as terms for ‘sea’, but gnat appears once in the rímur in a kenning for ‘poetry’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gnat). — [1] gnat, vǫrr, vika ‘din, ship’s wake, sea-mile’: Kock (NN §3138; Skald) rearranges this sequence of heiti as Vǫrr, gnat, vika to achieve alliteration on the first lift.
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